Captain Morgan tastes awful. I got here trying to search for why it takes so awful. The only way I can figure they stay in business is there’s a lot of drinkers who smoke or just naturally don’t have any taste buds.
I was going to vote for Mount Gay, too. During my “Welcome to New England, You’re Gonna Like it Here” weekend years ago, my friend fed me Mount Gay in Coca-Cola (with a lime).
Say what you like about how awful it is to mix good rum with Coke…I’m not a liquor snob, just looking to get the job done with the stuff. And that job is to taste good and get me slightly tipsy.
Maybe I can ask this here: Why do I see liquor ads on TV, and Capt Morgan being most of them?
In olden days they never advertised liquor. Was there a law change? Is it only on cable that I see this? Why aren’t all the liquor co advertising?
The government cant ban liquor ads as it violates the first amendment. For many years the industry voluntarily pulled ads. No longer.
It’s almost undoubtedly on cable, or, if on one of the broadcast networks, during late night. Traditionally, you didn’t see ads for hard liquor on TV because the liquor industry voluntarily refrained from placing ads there. That started changing about 20 years ago.
Article from 2012:
http://adage.com/article/news/hard-time-liquor-advertising-pours-tv/234733/
There’s nothing wrong with Captain Morgan’s. I find rum to be plenty sweet on its own, and spiced rum is always too sweet for me straight up, but spiced rum does have a proper place in the liquor cabinet.
Talking rum in general, Gosling’s Black Seal is my rum of choice.
Even if they were funny, or clever–and I’ve seen few ads in my life that actually were clever–so what? When the (attempt at) humor has no bearing on the product, you can be pretty sure the product is crap.
I will assume that the hatred for Captain Morgan is due to the large number of people who couldn’t tell the difference between good rum and rotgut and just drink it because of the ads. It’s not so much the drink as it is the drinkers.
That’s interesting. So the networks decide on what’s appropriate and the industry goes along to be good citizens? How does this relate with cigarette ads? I can still remember a lot of the jingles for cigs. Then they stopped in 71 I think and that was the law wasn’t it? Whats the dif?
Wheres the first amendment on cigs?
I don’t think that it actually is a 1st Amendment issue. Cigarette tv ads were banned by congressional legislation and signed by President Nixon in 1970. The hard liquor thing was a voluntary ban by the industry. Now they show the ads based on demographics so that less than a certain percent of under 21 years olds are expected to be watching.
Why does that circumvent the first amendment?
The First Ammendment isn’t limitless.
If I want a “spiced” rum experience, I’ll mix it with cider or eggnog or something. Let me buy the right rum and spice it to my preference.
But really, I like the taste of a good dark rum so much that I’d just rather not have spice stomping all over it.
It is. The tobacco industry never challenged these bans in court and signed consent decrees. But that doesnt mean the government can control what kind of non-misleading ad an adult can see. http://www.telegram.com/article/20120402/NEWS/120409962&Template=printart
At the time, “television” meant “broadcast.” Broadcast tv uses publicly owned airwaves, which gives the government (which regulates those airwaves) more latitude to regulate speech than in other media. Thus, tobacco ads could be banned from TV, but not from print.
So Tobacco ads are OK on TV now that we are in a cable environment? Or the industry is going along with historical precedent of their own volition?
They signed consent decrees agreeing not to advertise.
The government can ban indecent or misleading speech but if the tobacco industry had taken this to court they might have prevailed. Its all speculation, of course.
This question could use a GQ thread. There’s been a lot of dancing between the government and the tobacco industry. A lawsuit settlement ended up banning a lot cigarette print and billboard advertising and the FDA has talked about regulating nicotine products as drugs. I think right now the tobacco industry doesn’t want to rock the boat too much.
Light up a kent you got a good thing goin
To a smoker its a Kent
You never had it so Kool
A silly millimeter longer 101
Tijuana smalls, you know who you are, it’s little cigar
I’d rather fight than switch
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
I still got it!